Tale of the Silver Spoons

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

How true is that? This is a tale of A couple called Jane & Watson, & their house mate, Mary.
Mary was the first (& main) tenant for the first place they stayed together. Generally there was not much arguements & everyone was happy staying together. Mary's the eldest daughter in her family with a younger brother which is more or less 15 years her junior, therefore she is loved & cared for thoroughly, to the advantage of Jane & Watson. Jane loves to cook for her boyfriend using mostly all of the cooking utensils Mary's mother brought from her house. Mary's parents believed in harmony between them housemates, willing to help out unselfishly anyway they can, to a certain extend, that is.

Construction works nearby kills the sleeping time for all 3 of them in their residence since they have to work in shifts. So they decided to move out to somewhere more quiet, but is that better now? It was known then that Mary became the sole breadwinner of her family. She was alright with it but the rental is only getting more expensive now. While moving in, Jane acted as the main tenant this time & forgot to ask for brand new mattresses for everyone, making it difficult to sleep with bedbugs on the bed, and the sofa bed in the living room. Jane & Watson managed to exterminate most of the bugs on their King-size & the sofa; Mary chose to get a new one whereby the landlord was not willing to pay the amount required (Jane forgot to ask for an extra cupboard for Mary then too).

Remember, when you've paid the agent they're fees, the scums will flee as fast as possible and throw your problems all around. This is reality.

Life was still fine for all 3 until they're landlord wanted to sell the place & increase the rental after the agreed minimum stay. Mary wasn't willing to pay more as the contract signed doesn't include anything like this; Watson's family needed somewhere to stay so he was alright with Mary moving, yet giving her priority if she wants to stay on. She did find a place to stay at the same price in beter conditions. The end.

Wait a minute, I haven't come to the good part yet right? So what about the silver spoons? How would you feel if you are using someone else's rice cooker, pots, pans, & all? My advice is Use Cautiously, they're not yours. You may end up breaking one of those exquisite glass lids for a pot where it can be used to fry an egg, just like Jane. This was not the only mistake that Jane did. Generally, she just didn't take care of stuff like non stick pans, plastic utensils, and ended up damaging most of the stuff. Damage can be a very delicate word here too. It depends on the person who defines it. For instance, to Jane damaging something will be like breaking an exquisite glass lid; but for Mary's mum, the owner of the utensils, damage is as serious as a broken lid or a scratched pan, wok, where things are not left the way it suppose to be. You may agree with either of them, which side you agree with also defines who you are.

Watson always had respect for Mary's parents since they helped Jane & him so much. There was once Watson left his keys in his room & he had an impotant meeting to attend soon. He ws rushing to work in the morning where Jane was outstation for the whole week. He thought it made his day when Mary woke up early too to open the front gate for him. Thankfully he reached work in time. Mary was considerate enough to wait for him to come back too before going off. Mary's dad helped him to break his room door & changed the lock in a blink. Now he knew that he had a wonderful day (but the day was even better later! But that's another story to tell).

Watson has some matching forks and spoons (which belonged to his late mother) left together with Mary's. Mary had to work yet she also needed to move out soon. Her dad's car must be used by that day too so her parent's decided to bring her cute little brother along and help her to move most of her stuff back since they do stay quite some distance away (Maybe countries apart). In a hectic rush of time, Mary's parents accidentally took Watson's silver spoons while packing up in record time. Jane saw it & told Watson in record time too. Watson felt that if Mary's mum really wanted it, it's alright since Jane broke something valuable of hers, such as a certain glass lid, but Jane made a fuss about it since it was valuable to her darling Watson. She casually asked Mary's mum about it whom was rushing around and brushed her off, denying such a mistake, according to Jane that is. Watson met Jane outside and she was still fuming about the way Mary's mum answered her.

Watson did the unthinkably stupid thing: he called Mary who was busy in work to ask of his silver spoon. He did asked if she was free to talk or if it was tea time first, but he popped the question anyway. Jane may or may not have disapproved of the phone call, but who knows? Sometimes the worst thing to do is to be blurry of your own intentions. That was the firestarter there.

Imagine getting a phonecall which sounded like a 'howler' from Harry Potter's world, in a library. Watson wouldn'tve imagined it since he got the chance to exxperience it first hand. He was burning like the Sumateran forest after the phone call, hating Jane for what he thought she started. Mary's mum was so mad that she demanded Watson to return the exact glass lid they broke. She didn't forget to berate Watson for making such a phone call to her daughter who was busy working, asking him to 'be a man, don't listen to everything your girl says!'. Watson can also remember listening Mary's nice and gentle dad adding to his wife's word from behind.

Red faced Watson went to hunt for the bloody lid to no avail. Instead he bought a set of glassware cooking utensils of the same brand. Mary's mum declined the token of guilt and claimed everything was a misunderstanding. Watson forced Jane to apologize, to repent, and to change. Jane did apologize while defending herself in a wailing way (Never shed a tear in a fight/apology/talk. It just makes you look literally small). So everything superficial was mended at that night.

Afterthought:
Does it matter who's right or wrong after something like this happened to you? Who would you not be in this situation? Is it right to judge any of them since you do not know both sides of the story? We're not paid or taught to be judges, so try not to do any free work badly, but then again, I wouldn't resist too. Until then, ciaoz.